[Haskell-cafe] Serialize to Haskell

[Corentin Dupont]

Hello!
I'm wondering if it's possible to serialize some data to a format that is
valid Haskell.
In practice I would read a file like this:

module Foo where

  myData :: MyData
  myData = MyData {name = "foo",
                   descr = "test"
                   ...
                   }

Reading this into a program is easily feasible with Hint, for example.
Then the program would modify some data and serialize it back to:

module Foo where

  myData :: MyData
  myData = MyData {name = "bar",
                   descr = "test2"
                   ...
                   }

In practice I think that the format should be a subset of Haskell that is
not Turing-complete.
A bit like JSON, which is a subset of Javascript but not Turing complete.
Is it possible?

Thanks,
Corentin
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